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ReadyNAS Pro 6 crashed again
Hello all, My ReadyNAS Pro6 periodically stops responding to the network. When that happens I can push the button to shutdown it but it will sit on "shutting down" forever and then I'll have to p...
Little update.
I checked the battery, it's ok, 3.1V. I replaced it some time ago when I serviced the box.
I re-reset the BIOS (only thing I change is the default fan speed!)
I swapped position of HDD0 with HDD4. I sprayed dry contact cleaner on the backplane and on the HDDs, cleaned with a small q-tip.
Once the NAS was powered up again, HDD0 failed to show up on the BIOS splash page straight away. So it's not the HDD and, to be honest, I feel that that might be a red herring. I never had issues with HDD0 so maybe it's a BIOS bug which then does not affect the software. No idea. But I now know it's not the drive.
I've added a TP-Link switch between the main switch and the NAS.
Next: throwing the NAS out of the window.
And no, the NAS disappeared again.
Solution: SSH into other port and ifconfig the other port DOWN and then UP again.
I could try swapping the config but I think I tried that in the past already.
If someone could give me some directions for checking the HDDs offline as mentioned above, that would be great! 🙂
Thanks
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